CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments

These are mostly comments in the code. A few error messages were fixed
and are of low enough importance not to deserve a backport. Some regtests
were also fixed.
diff --git a/reg-tests/checks/4be_1srv_health_checks.vtc b/reg-tests/checks/4be_1srv_health_checks.vtc
index e27f4b4..348fcbf 100644
--- a/reg-tests/checks/4be_1srv_health_checks.vtc
+++ b/reg-tests/checks/4be_1srv_health_checks.vtc
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # disabling the servers. Same thing, when we check that the servers are down
 # before enabling the servers.
 
-# Cyclic barrier to synchonize the CLI with the syslog servers
+# Cyclic barrier to synchronize the CLI with the syslog servers
 barrier b1 cond 5 -cyclic
 
 # These servers are there only for the health-check test.